Improved eye for railway-car bell-ropes



' W. M. WALTON. Eye for, Railway Car Bell Rope.-

Patented Dec. 21., 1869.

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WILLIAM 1M. WALTON, 0E NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR 'ro HIMSELF AND JOSEPH J. WALTON, OF SAME PLACE.

. Letters-Pat ent No. 98,130, dated Deoembe'r 21, 1869.

IMPROVED EYE ron RAILWAY-CAR'BELL-ROPES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Heretofore it has been'usnal, in railroad-cars, to'

introduce a rope, running along theceilings of the cars to the bell of the engine. This rope is supported by rollers, at the bottom of hanging eyes.

' The rope has to be threaded along through the cars, in making up the train, and this frequently has to be done with rapidity; and often the said bell-rope is not threaded through all the eyes, and is allowed to hang down in the cars, much to the inconvenience of persons moving about the cars. 7

The object of this invention is to facilitate the introduction of the bell-rope through the train of cars with rapidity.

In the drawing, I have represented my improved eye in elevation, in Figure 1, and in a. sideview in Figure 2.

This eye is made with a convoluted frame,- a', supporting the roller b, and this frame has flanges at 0,

through which screws are to be passed, for attaching which the bell-rope is introduced, and rests upon the roller b.

Byt-his construction, the bell-rope can be run through t-hetrain of cars withrapidity, it only requiring to be threaded through the eyes over the doors, and after; ward the rope can .be lifted and entered through the tortuous passage '1' to the roller b, said rope passing in sidewise.- I

I This tortuous passage'i prevents the rope getting out of the eye, in consequence of th vibration or motion'of the rope when pulled upon, or as swayed by the ears.

I do not claim a pulley, or a bell-rope eye, in which partof the frame is left open for laying in the rope.

Neither do I claim a latch or tongue for closing the' said opening after the rope is in place, or for allowing- Witnesses:

OnAs. H. SMITH, GEO. '1. PmcKNEY. 

